• ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world
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    I remember a time when news for most people came from the local paper and/or a 30 minute network evening TV show. Both were written by real journalists who attempted to be unbiased.

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      Read up on roger Ailes and Reagan destroying ‘The Fairness Doctrine.’

      Back in the day, you could only own two radio stations in one town [AM and FM] and any editorial had to provide time for rebuttal.

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            And cancelling Apollo. The Saturn V was the greatest engineering achievement of the human race. If the Wright brothers had done their first flight and 8 years later some group flew a 747 across the Pacific ocean it would have been by multiple measures a less impressive achievement.

            He cancelled the remaining missions and shelved the rocket. Within 2 years it could no longer be built and the country that went to the moon could not put a human into space. In the 50 years since then no rocket has come close to what it could do.

            And he did it all for tax cuts.

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      That is, until Sinclair and Clear Channel started gobbling up local affiliates to push their own narratives.